#because I made cadash my rook too

[bearlytolerant]

his knee placement…

[sleepymarmot]

Ok, now I really want to play a dwarf Grey Warden with the templar specialization...

You can only be all three in Origins. You can be two out of three in Inquisition (dwarf templar) and Veilguard (dwarf Grey Warden).

In Origins, I've already done Aeducan, so this would be Brosca. I've previously posted about a potential Brosca for a "maximum disappointment with human morals" playthrough:

Lose Leliana because you poisoned the urn (fail to intimidate/lie)

Lose Wynne because you poisoned the urn (either she’s present and you kill her, or she’s in camp and leaves)

Lose Alistair because you recruited Loghain (the Warden is not an elf, who wouldn’t forgive him for selling fellow elves into slavery)

Lose Morrigan because you refuse to help her preserve something dangerous and unknown (which eventually turns out to be a fragment of the soul of one of the tyrants responsible for the downfall of your species)

By the way, this combination means that the same worldstate will have Lyrium Ghost Leliana. I don't think I've mentioned my realization after the Veilguard reveals that spirit Leliana became embodied the same way ancient spirit did? Seems thematically relevant.

This Brosca seems fitting for a harsh choices worldstate. In this case, ghost Leliana will also be hardened, and probably also become the Divine. Like this.

What if all three dwarf protagonists are in the same worldstate? Imagine how Cadash would feel about Brosca, who was betrayed by half of their surfacer allies, then sacrificed herself to save their world anyway?

I've already had separate plans for a pious templar Trevelyan and a magicphobic artificer Cadash... What if I made Cadash a templar? My initial reason for artificer was 1) I loved the specialization and also wanted to try a weapon-agnostic build; 2) the specialization embodies down-to-earth, non-mystical and non-magical ingenuity — the polar opposite of Solas's (and my canon Inquisitor's) love for spirits and tendency to look at the big picture. But at this point... Solas already has a dwarven artificer narrative foil. Varric. Veilguard greatly enhanced his role as Solas's ideological opponent, so making an Inquisitor who's too similar for him might be redundant. So maybe Solas's rival Cadash instead feels strangely drawn to lyrium, which is partially how she got into the lyrium smuggling business, and then she jumped on the opportunity to start infusing herself with it. And! Unlike the tragically dead Brosca, Cadash will still be there for the big reveals that will finally explain her life!

Oh, but if all of these characters are in the same worldstate, then playing Veilguard as a Rook who is 1) a Warden 2) a dwarf trying to reclaim their past 3) uncompromising about their morals — would be agonizing. First of all, a Warden would either fall in love with Davrin or at least be best friends with him, but a dwarf obsessed with the titans would do everything to keep Harding as safe as possible. Also, as for Minrathous vs Treviso, a Warden would prioritise preventing the spread of the blight, but Minrathous is a strategic option that would make more sense with this worldstate's concept.

Yay! I'm finally at the stage where Veilguard inspires me to assemble new worldstates! Now I just need to finish it for the first time...